Compiling a Fortran 2003 program with MVAPICH2

Question

Can you use MVAPICH2 to compile a fortran 2003 programme?

MVAPICH2 states that a) it provides its own compilers and b) it provides the mpif77 and mpif90 wrappers (which both point to e.g. /opt/mvapich2-2.3.1/bin/mpifort). I can't find any docs which help with this.

Answer 1

MPI implementations (MVAPICH is one of many MPI implementations) only provide wrappers around other compilers. They do not provide any "own" compilers. You can compile whichever Fortran does your compiler support.

The build of MVAPICH you download somewhere may be already compiled to be used with some specific compiler, but that does not mean MVAPICH provides that compiler. Similarly, if you buy a compiler suite, it can come with an MPI library (like MVAPICH) pre-compiled.

It is customary to call the mpif90 wrapper to compile any modern Fortran but often the difference from mpif77 is very small, if any at all. Some compilers also provide mpifort or some other wrapper name, which does not explicitly contain any Fortran standard version.

Most modern compilers you will find support most, if not all, features of Fortran 2003. It depends on the exact version you have.